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Agenda PPI BOARD MEETING
--- 26.08.2025 20:00 UTC/22:00 CEST ---
Audio recording: https://owncloud.ag-technik.de/s/Rok3RDH6WcztMxm
Video: https://jitsi.pirati.cz/PPI-Board
Pad: https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/bm-2025-08-26-ah8k067

Record of the meeting

1 - ATTENDEES

1.1 - Members of the PPI board

participating: Keith, Bastian, Bailey, Gregory, Schoresch, Babak, Alexander
excused:
unexcused:
Quorum:

1.2 - Others

Alternate Board Members:
participating:
excused: Thomas Gaul, Mark, Mtoledo
unexcused:
Guests:
participating: PirateOnAir, Numero6, Kay

2 - PROCEEDINGS

RoP: https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=PPI_Board/Rules_of_Procedure
Meeting opened at 20:03 UTC by Keith
Meeting chaired by Keith arrives
Secretary for this meeting is everybody
Quorum established with 7 out of 9 board members present.
Streaming started: ? https://piratesonair.net/live-stream/
Recording started: yes, presumably.
Postal votes: no
Votes delegated (§5 Votes (5. 3.) ROP):
Notes on meeting process: ?

3 - APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES

Motion
Do we approve the minutes? https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=PPI_Minutes_2025-08-05
Yes : Bailey, Gregory, Keith,Schoresch, Babak,
No :
Abstain : Bastian, Alex
Result: Minutes are passed


4 - REPORTS

4.1 - Short reports of the board members 1)

Board

  • Keith Goldstein: I facilitated the registration for 2 of our representatives to participate on Sept. 25th at the UNHQ High-Level Meeting on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases and the Promotion of Mental Health (info below). We are running a bit low on blog content. We need more routine English content. Over the summer people were on vacation and attended less events.


  • Gregory Engels: Summer Break.
  • Bailey Lamon: Summer Break. Working on a blog about Gaza. I have been working on it for a while. It turned into a big project.
  • Alexander Isavnin: Summer Break. Freedom restrictions are appearing in Russia. Maybe in PPI you have seen comments about European topics about restricting freedom. I would like for more posts from the Russian side to PPI, but we have been doing the opposite - reposting PPI's posts in Russian in our media. We hope to give more links. A lot of activities related to freedoms. A lot of comments related to software companies that left Russia...
  • Sebastian Krone:
I have been monitoring the PPI tech as I do every day.
All the patches are up to date.
All systems are running smoothly.
Still some problems with spam, but it's going better.
We have a solution to handle the G-Mail problem, we have no solution with the PPDE mail problem, because we are still blocked by their Malcow mail server.
  • Maycow Toledo:
not present
  • Carlos Polo
not present
  • Thomas Gaul
excused

Alternates:

  • Babak Tubis
n/a


  • Schoresch Davoodi
Wrote a draft for an article we can add on PPI about the new programmatic developments in foreign policy in the german PP
spoke in Tübingen at an event for the CCC we can tweet the talk if needed  www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzZqTZ37ppE
Soon I will do 2nd Speech in Basel at the "Hack The Promise"
On Friday I will speak at the Podcast "Russland Watch" about foreign policy etc. at 20H on YT
Keith: We need the English subtitles or translations.
Bastian: I can use an AI account to autotranslate.
  • Stefan Dekkers
not present

5.1 - Proposals

  • GA
Winter?
Working group...
Bastian: We need a budget for this. If we hold a GA in November or December. We will also need money for TT5. It will be good to organize a few months later.
Discussion of hosting it in Warsaw, Prague, or Berlin/Potsdam.
Schoresch: Poland would be a great place politically, especially to support the Pirate Party of Poland.
Let´s have a working group meeting Sept. 2nd at 20:00 UTC.
  • TT5
Spring, Summer, Vienna?
Working group...
Bastian: I think it is a minimum of 2000 or 3000 euros (for TT5). We need to coordinate with a location and other announcements.
Keith will send a message to the people in Vienna and ask them when they would like to have a meeting.

5.2 - Working Groups Update

Maybe there was a SCENE working group. It is in the calendar.
GA working group will update soon.

5.3 Economic Update

  • Treasurer Report:
Bank accounts 3,379.76 CHF / 4.08 EUR
PayPal EUR 376.68
Keith and Sebastian had a meeting in Potsdam to get PPI's cryptocurrency back.
History:
It is not possible to register a Kraken account for PPI as an organization because we do not have registration documents. Therefore, I opened a Kraken account with the PPI Foundation, which is already registered in Germany. It is quite chaotic to submit all the necessary documents, including the transparency register. But I think we are almost there.
Interim result:
They need more time to check our passports... and now the passport copies we provided don't match something...
Question: We donated about EUR 150 to the crowdfunding for the IGF 2025 in Oslo. Where is the money?
Keith will care for.

5.4 ECOSOC/UN

  • Sept. 25th Participation at the UNHQ High-Level Meeting on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases and the Promotion of Mental Health.
We prepared short statements and are awaiting confirmation of whether we can make a statement. A draft of our statements can be found here: https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/unhq-ncd-aeny0n0

5.5 PPI HQ update

The headquarters is up and running. We have amended our statutes to be recognized as a non-profit, tax-exempt association (hard work with the tax office).
https://ppi.works/
Surprise: We have taken over the “Glaesernes Mobil” from PPDE to make it available for the Pirate movement. Unfortunately, a lot of repairs are needed, but the financing is secured.
https://ppi.works/en/the-glass-mobile/
Alex: Let's have GA in it ;)
Bastian: bring ideas of how to use it for campaigning in Europe. Example possible campaign - against AI in weapons

6 AOB - Any other business

  • Blogs
  • Paper Schoresch Austrian
About NGOs, a friend of mine wrote a paper about NGOs for an Austrian private university with UNESCO. It is a while ago, but it was useful for us as Pirates with a focus on Africa. I have used in the Basel speech and other things. It is linked in the sources.
  • RightsCon
In Lusaka, Zambia, 05-08 May 2026 (and online)
Deadline for Submissions 12th of September
https://www.rightscon.org/rc26-call-for-proposal/
Alex: Let's do something, i sometimes participate (online) i can answer questions
Bastian: there is some issues with how to delegate somebody...
RightsCon Proposal Training #2
Tuesday, September 2, 2025
4 am New York | 10 am Brussels | 4 pm Hong Kong
https://www.rightscon.org/your-guide-to-a-successful-proposal/#training
  • Global Gathering (ex Internet Freedom Festival)
We missed it: https://wiki.digitalrights.community/index.php?title=Global_Gathering_2025
Estorill, 8-10 September
We should remember to use Discourse for our planning.
Babak: *snore*
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  • Meeting Closed: 21:07 by Keith
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